Describes the development and implementation of a comprehensive, results-oriented management system based on a participative management concept. (Author/IRT)

This district's method of obtaining closure, teamwork, and consistency within the administrative team is by a realistic, team-developed, "position papers" process. (Author/IRT)

In dealing with the instructional staff, the administrator should not lose view of the fact that this is a relationship based essentially on authority. (Author)

Applied to instruction, the systems approach requires that one determine the product, i.e., what performance is expected from the student, before designing the actual instruction. The implications of this idea for the principal's role as instructional leader are examined. (Author/IRT)

Develops a descriptive model of school organizational patterns using the concept of complexity of environment, and explores the implications different organizational patterns have for students and teachers. (Author)

Examines several management theories dealing with subordinate-supraordinate relationships and concludes that the most favorable relationship occurs in the institution when the transactional decision-making method is used. (Author/IRT)

Zero-base budgeting may be a great assistance to principals, if principals have a role in its development and implementation. (Author/IRT)

The principal should recommend that the teacher regularly and consciously apply the self-fulfilling prophecy--the idea that one person's expectation for another's behavior can come to serve as a mechanism to help that expectation be fulfilled. (Author/IRT)

After examining the teacher evaluation, student feedback, and teacher self-assessment models used for instructional improvement, the author concludes that it is logical that teachers should assume more responsibility for learning how to help themselves and that the self-assessment model is rewarding and worthwhile. (Author/IRT)

Given any set of goals, each can be classified into one of five categories--needs of the individual, dictates of the academic discipline, needs of society, basic skills, and future and issues. This classification system can be used to identify bias and to clarify existing values. (Author/IRT)

Describes the development of ongoing, clearly defined, and structured problem-solving and shared decision-making machinery that has upgraded the role and importance of intermediate supervisors with concomitant benefits in their morale and their contributions to the school at large. (Author/IRT)

This program to improve the school climate focuses on an assessment of the problems in the school environment, a training program for teachers and administrators, and an effort to inform teachers, parents, officials, and the public on the assessment results, the training, and the outcome of the program. (Author/IRT)

In a speech delivered 20 years ago, the author answers criticisms of education that sound much the same as those offered currently. (Author/IRT)

Describes a study to assess the discriminatory power of two instruments designed to determine the similarities and differences between teachers' and students' perceptions in regard to a set of psychological values juxtaposed with teaching and learning characteristics. (Author/IRT)

Students in this volunteer program have scored significant gains in reading performance, self-concept, grade point average, and attendance. (IRT)